Otto Vowinkel

Guitar maker Amsterdam

Belmin Okanović

Belmin Okanović

Like in many Eastern European countries, the music education system in Bosnia Herzegovina is very well organized. There are elementary and secondary music schools. The curriculum works with grades and there are a lot of competitions taking place. No wonder this country has many talented guitar players. For example Belmin Okanović. He started to play guitar at age of 8 in elementary music school under the tutelage of Nedim Tinjić and continued with prof. Predrag Stanković at the secondary music school. After Summer he will start in Vienna to continue his musical education with Alexander Swete. Belmin plays beautifully and already won several competitions. Last week he sent me an email including this picture.

Belmin Okanović

‘Dear Mr. Vowinkel,

I just want to inform you that I won the First prize on Vojvodina guitar fest!
I really enjoyed the Festival, and the guitar was excellent!

Greetings form Bosnia and Herzegovina,

Belmin Okanović’

I am sure we will here a lot of Belmin in the future.

more winners

After my post about Sanel and Tariq winning the Tokyo Guitar Competition I got an email from Tatjana Lazovic, who is the proud mother of Ema Kapor, the talented guitarist I wrote about earlier.

I want to inform you that they both like their dear guitars very much and play very nice on them. Belmin and Ema had many successes playing the guitar this year, and the last one is winning the Guitar Fest in Banja Luka (Bosnia and Hercegovina) this November. Ema won 1. Prize in IV category, playing Recuerdos de la Alhambra (F.Tarrega) and Usher waltz (N.Koshkin). Belmin won 1. Prize in V category, playing Capriccio No.15 (L.Legnani), Suite BWV 998, Prelude (J.S.Bach) and Mallorca (I.Albeniz). After the concert of the winners, I took this photo.
 

Ema Kapor and Belmin Okanovicic

Congratulations Belmin and Ema !!